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digging up the
roots of
aquatic plants. Some
skeletal characters of
anthracotheres suggest they are
related to hippos. The
nature of the
sediments in which...
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groups such as anoplotheres, cainotheriids, merycoidodonts, entelodonts,
anthracotheres, basilosaurids, and palaeomerycids. Many
artiodactyls are of
great dietary...
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members of the
family Hippopotamidae. Some
taxonomists place hippos and
anthracotheres in the
superfamily Anthracotheroidea.
Hippopotamidae are classified...
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Hippopotaminae is used. Further, some
taxonomists group hippopotami and
anthracotheres in the
superfamily Anthracotheroidea or Hippopotamoidea. The taxonomy...
- to the hippopotamus, of
which it is
probably an
ancestral form. The
Anthracotheres,
together with the hippos, are
grouped with the
cetaceans in the clade...
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given in the
table below: The
hippopotamids are
descended from the
anthracotheres, a
family of
semiaquatic and
terrestrial artiodactyls that appeared...
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detailed research of the
dentition among ancodonts, as well as how some
anthracotheres were
similar to
hippos in appearance, lead the
current consensus where...
- 'long-legged pig', was
named after Jagger. Jaw
fragments of the long-extinct
anthracotheres were
discovered in Egypt. The
trilobite species Aegrotocatellus jaggeri...
- 10.2024.515. Pickford, M.; Gawad, M. A. (2025). "Revision of
Large Anthracotheres from the
Early Miocene of Moghara, Egypt". Münchner Geowissenschaftliche...
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Cairo University, and Duke University. At the site, six
species of
anthracotheres were discovered, but this
sample was
unlike other family members because...